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A web browsing system for cellular-phone users based on adaptive presentation

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Cellular phones are widely used to access the Web. However, most available Web pages are designed for desktop PCs, and it is inconvenient to browse these large Web pages on a cellular phone with a small screen and poor interfaces. Users who browse a Web page on a cellular phone have to scroll through the whole page to find the desired content, and must then search and scroll within that content in detail to get useful information. This paper describes the design and implementation of a novel Web browsing system for cellular phones. This system includes a Web page overview to reduce scrolling operations when finding objective content within the page. Furthermore, it adaptively presents content according to its characteristics to reduce burdensome operations when searching within content.

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Shigeyuki Akiba, President and CEO of KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. for his continuous support for this study. This research was partially supported by “Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology: Yuragi Project” and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (18049050) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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  1. Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Yuki Arase, Takahiro Hara & Shojiro Nishio

  2. NTT Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

    Takuya Maekawa

  3. KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan

    Toshiaki Uemukai

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Arase, Y., Maekawa, T., Hara, T. et al. A web browsing system for cellular-phone users based on adaptive presentation. Univ Access Inf Soc 6, 259–271 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-007-0088-6

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